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Understanding Political Concepts | FedericaX on edX

This course offers an exciting journey through political science concepts. Understand key concepts like party, bureaucracy, and constitution by using new methods developed for scholars and students; including the innovative "Hyperpolitics" tool. Take this course for free on edx.org: https://www.edx.org/course/understanding-political-concepts-fed-x-21 This course is part of the IPSAMOOC project, a joint venture Federica Weblearning - IPSA, the International Political Science Association Political science discourse brings us face to face with many important concepts like authority, democracy, and power. However, all of them are used differently in different contexts, and their specific meaning depends on the theory they relate to. There is no way around such puzzling diversity. Students of political science simply have to accept this challenge. Yet, the diversity of political science concepts can be used as a powerful resource for learning, through intellectual techniques for stirring personal creativity. This MOOC teaches conceptual thinking and elementary theory-building through Hyperpolitics, an interactive dictionary for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Its aim is to provide students with fresh critical insights about key political concepts by offering a methodology that enables users to unpack and reconstruct them on their own. Its companion open-access website serves as a powerful tool for students to practice forging their own vocabulary while learning how to make professional use of authoritative PS internet resources. Through ten lessons, this MOOC comprises lecture sections based on visualizations of the arguments presented, reading assignments, and practical exercises.

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[Music] welcome to our course on concept analysis my name is mauro calise i am a professor of political science at the university of naples federico ii we shall analyze together the basic vocabulary of the discipline and such keywords as party bureaucracy public opinion democracy constitutional legislature the main aim of our course is to try and disentangle the complexity the variety of definitions and empirical cases which this concept encompass and we'll do so by using an interactive tool a w
eb platform which is both a written book but also a new tool that will contribute to your understanding of the concept actually to your own making of this concept that we shall be explaining this book has been written by me with professor ted louis one of the founding fathers of the discipline and unfortunately is not able to join us but i'm very happy to welcome professor verner patzel a german colleague from the university of dresden who is going to be with us all along in this new very challe
nging enterprise so vernon what is this hyper politics platform all about well the hyper politics platform and the whole approach of hyper politics is about conceptual analysis so what can you expect from this class on hyper politics first of all you get an introduction into conceptual thinking what it is about why it is important what its most important tools are and then you of course get a very in-depth introduction into the guiding ideas of hyper politics that is what are the dictionaries ou
t of which its core vocabulary is taken and why are these the important dictionaries and how was this vocabulary assembled and the core element of hyper politics is the matrix a matrix around one central concept around which you uh collect and give order to 12 additional concepts which allows you to integrate theoretical thought out of the literature into your own reflections and because theory is the one thing and practice is a different thing you will see some discussions between my colleague
marco kalis and myself which show you how this approach of hyper politics is put into practice and what the standards for good quality are you will have seen that both of us are real enthusiasts about hyper politics but maru why are we so enthusiastic about hyper politics the reason why we are so enthusiastic is because this is a way that we can empower your mind in political understanding and conceptual theory building and as tableau we would say this is the best way to make yourself become you
r own aristotle so be bold be innovative be trustful that your theories can come true and become something new for yourself and for political science [Music]

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